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Re: Slack was down

#31
post #12

Since twitter went down the other week hackernews is now the primary 'is it down?' news site.

I don't think this is the appropriate forum for "is down" postings. Post-mortems are interesting.

It is appropriate if Slack being down affects software other than Slack. We can learn how to avoid outages in our own products happening due to 3rd party services such as Slack becoming unavailable.

Re: Slack was down

#32
post #16

If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.

It's not just about chat. It's also about the integration we have set up with many different applications. I'll check this out hopefully it integrates with stuff!

Re: Slack was down

#33
Well, since ( according to ) Slack is the be all and end all of business communication and killed email, I can only imagine the absolute caos throughout the World that's going on right now.

I expect an economic downturn worst than the Depression in the 30's.

Re: Slack was down

#34
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can apply the same logic to email and the internet in general.

Comparing one proprietary service to federated and open services? I'm not following you

While email as a whole is indeed federated, email service for a single company is usually not, that is you have a single provider and when that provider happens to have technical issues your email might be down. While obviously you could use other provider (or even free email) almost immediately to send emails, you will not be able to receive/access emails that are sent to your primary address/domain until the provider resolves their issues.

Re: Slack was down

#36
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can apply the same logic to email and the internet in general.

Comparing one proprietary service to federated and open services? I'm not following you

It doesn't really matter how open and federated email is if all mail in/out of your mailbox has to go through one provider. If my company's Exchange server went down, email would stop.

Likewise for Internet service... if my local AT&T connection went down, it doesn't matter how open and resilient the Internet is, I'm not getting online until it's fixed.

Re: Slack was down

#37
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is the appropriate forum for "is down" postings. Post-mortems are interesting.

They're upvoted because people can't resist making the same tired "see? we are over-reliant on {Slack,Github,Cloudflare,etc}!" comments.

See, we're over-reliant on HN for making these types of comments!

Re: Slack was down

#38
post #16

If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.

Alternatively, there's also Rocket.Chat, which is also open source, you can self host it or pay for the cloud plans (which have special rates for certain kinds of organizations, such as OSS).

https://rocket.chat/

Disclaimer: I've done a GSoC project with them last year.

Re: Slack was down

#39
post #16

If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.

Thank you - hadn't come across that one.
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